Jim D wrote: > I beg to differ. What you are effectively doing is popping your IMAP > account and filtering email in local folders. It's not really IMAP > because mail on the server stays in the Inbox. You just move it around > in your local folders.
Ahh.. yes, you are correct. When I think of *filters* I think of what TB does to a particular message (in the context of my installation - locally). What you are describing I would call folder management and/or server-side filters. My misunderstanding. > I got excited about IMAP in v2.0, I stopped using IMAP, because it > still has problems with managing folders and filtering email. But it's > much better than in 1.62, so I am hopeful that by 2.5 or 3.0, we'll > have it 100% right! :p Without starting a huge debate, can some people weigh in on what the pros and cons are for IMAP? I understand the protocol a bit, and can see the benefit of the travelling person (managing messages on the server). But what does IMAP offer that cannot be done in The Bat with Dispatcher - even with POP accounts? Maybe a better question is what is on the horizon for TB - that is, what is The Bat *close to* being able to do that cannot be done w/ Dispatcher? I've gone back and forth - it ultimately doesn't matter much to me. When I access my mailboxes remotely, I use a web interface or some other mobile means (geek) and I have those methods set to use IMAP. I understand POP can get messy if accessed from multiple machines, leaving copies on the server (ex: duplicate messages). But if only one access point in POP and the rest are IMAP, then things should be OK. At least this is what I've been told... :) The problem I have with TB's 1.62 IMAP is that it will only download untouched (unread) messages. I actually lost some important e-mail this way. I had accessed my mail with my phone and when I returned, it appeared that all my messages had been downloaded, so I deleted everything off the server. When I went to look for a specific message I read on my phone it was nowhere to be found! I don't think POP accounts behave this way, but I could be wrong. -- Ken Green Using The Bat! v1.62r on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4 ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
